This month Jacques Bughin and Eric Hazan - Senior Partners at McKinsey - explain that Artificial Intelligence has been around since the 1950s, and has gone through many cycles of hype and ‘winters’. Based on a survey of senior executives from over 3,000 companies in ten countries, they describe how artificial intelligence is experiencing a new spring and is here to stay; Lev Myshkin reviews the intelligent and hilarious documentary by Sonia Kronlund "Nothingwood" about the uproarious Afghan film-maker Salim Shaheen; Paul Rogers on the flourishing arms industry and much more...

A world of conflict and fear means boom time for big military companies. Wars and rumours of wars require constant supplies, and this is where that perennial of human activity, the arms bazaar, comes in.

In America’s wars, failure is the new success. Three generals stand alone, except for President Trump’s own family members, at the pinnacle of power in Washington. Our losing wars, it seems, are a necessary backdrop for the ultimate winning war in our nation’s capital.

Artificial intelligence has been around since the 1950s, and has gone through many cycles of hype and ‘winters’. Based on a survey of senior executives from over 3,000 companies in ten countries, this column describes how artificial intelligence is experiencing a new spring and is here to stay.

Some in the Trump administration are still eyeing regime change in North Korea. They're missing what's really going on over there. The fever dream of regime change has persisted in Washington for decades like a bad case of political malaria that repeated doses of realism have never quite eradicated.

A masterpiece of modern world literature has recently been published by New York Review of Books Classics. The tale of a renegade Brahmin whose dissolute life brings consternation and doubt to his community when he suddenly dies.